SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four Loko Settlement Forces Drink Maker To Police Their Social Media Page San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and 19 other state attorneys general announced Tuesday that the makers of Four Loko — a sugary, formerly hyper-caffeinated, alcoholic beverage — have agreed to stop marketing their products
SF News Bored With Reality, Facebook Buys Virtual Reality Startup For $2 Billion Facebook announced Tuesday that it would blow through another $2 billion in cash and common stock to acquire start-up Oculus, makers of Oculus Rift head-mounted virtual reality display. In a Facebook post today,
SF News Video: Extended Cut Of Molotov's Incident Reveals Profane Glass-itude Google Glass Explorer Sarah Slocum has released an extended cut of her head-mounted video from that fateful incident at Molotov's. The new version, which she shot herself from a camera attached to her
SF News San Franciscans LOVE Shuttle Buses, Says Enthusiastic Poll According to a new poll commissioned by business-sponsored, public-policy advocacy organization the Bay Area Council, a large majority of San Francisco voters don't actually believe shuttle buses are a symbol of the city's
SF News Day Around The Bay: Silicon Valley Under The Knife Today in gentrification writing, the Chronicle compares tech booms in: "How tech became the enemy - then and now." Turns out things are more or less the same. [Huet/Chron] Speaking of which:
SF News Some Monster Is Hunting Monterey's Adorable, Endangered Sea Otters Brace yourselves for your Monday outrage: six months ago, three male sea otters — one adult and two juveniles — were found dead near Asilomar State Beach in Pacific Grove, California. The cause of death
Arts & Entertainment Map: San Francisco, Arranged By Transit Time Today in maps: Peter Dunn of Stone Brown Design has created this time-scaled map of Muni, BART and Caltrain, all arranged by how long it would take you to get to commute to
SF News Bay Area Bike Share Expansion Delayed Due to Inconvenient Bankruptcy Alas, those of us hoping to see Bay Area Bike Share rides become useful beyond the Financial District and Embarcadero will have to wait until later this year. Bikes and docking stations were
SF News Day Around The Bay: Debunking Google wants to debunk a bunch of myths about Glass. OK, google. [SFGate] Woman who was arrested at least three times trying to sneak on to a plane to Hawaii says she just
Arts & Entertainment Happy 80th Birthday, Willie Brown! San Francisco's perpetual mayor and #1 power luncher Willie Brown turned 80 years young yesterday. We here from SFist would like to wish a very happy birthday to the city's avuncular octogenarian! Da
SF News Oakland To Pay Out $4.5 Million To Occupy Protester Scott Olsen Iraq War veteran and Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen will receive a $4.5 million settlement from the city of Oakland after being hit and critically injured by a beanbag round to the
SF News SJSU Hate Crime Victim Sues School For $5 Million In November of last year, black San Jose State University student Donald Williams Jr. accused his four white roommates of hate crimes. Four months later and Williams is now suing the school for
SF News Oakland Cyclist Wins $3.25 Million Pothole Payday The city of Oakland (and its insurance carrier) has agreed to payout $3.25 million to a woman who was seriously injured after she slammed into a pothole while riding her bike on
SF News Day Around The Bay: Flaming Proposal Even Chuck Nevius think's NEw York's current obsession with San Francisco is a little weird. [Nevius/Chron] Wine milkshakes are now a thing. [InsideScoop] Sure, pizza is great, but where can a guy
SF News Notorious Google Glass User Had Multiple Restraining Orders Against Her The story around Google's most divisive beta tester Sarah Slocum continues to unravel this week. Today, SF Weekly reports that Slocum's own mother took out a restraining order against her in 2011. The
Arts & Entertainment Mr. Marina Competition 2014: I've Never Felt This Way Before Last night was the third edition of the Mr. Marina Competition, the city's premiere male beauty pageant where grown men compete for the adoration of an entire neighborhood. The winner gets their name
SF News Day Around The Bay: 26 Stories Of San Francisco 26 Stories of San Francisco: in which the Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal takes you up 140 New Montgomery Street (and Yelp's HQ) to find what a landmark building could teach the current tech scene.
SF News San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Ban E-Cigarettes San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously yesterday to impose the city's strict no-smoking laws on e-cigarettes and vaporizers. In other words, you and that e-cig you've been happily puffing away on will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here Are The Best French Fries In San Francisco An abundance of fried potatoes is one of the things that makes this country great. (Although we could have done without that "freedom fries" thing.) As the home of the some of the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom Debate Legal Weed, Homelessness With A 26-Year-Old Alleged Sinatra progeny and 26-year-old MSNBC on-air personality Ronan Farrow is tackling some tough issues on his recently launched talk show Ronan Farrow Daily. He's already asked Kenyans what they think of President
SF News Day Around The Bay: Toilet City One of the biggest supporters of limiting high-rise developments on the waterfront is engaged in some political shenanigans. [Chron] Tomorrow's SFWeekly cover story has quiet a headline: "Occupied: San Francisco: Understanding the City
SF News SFPD Union Raffling Off Sweet Prizes To Cover Alleged Dirty Cops' Legal Defense The San Francisco Police Officers Association has come to the defense of five active and one former SFPD officer indicted on federal charges for extortion, drug dealing, theft and other alleged dirty deeds
SF News Notorious Google Glass User Has A History Of Recording Her Neighbors Infamous Google Glass Explorer/bar assault accuser Sarah Slocum is back in the news today after the Los Angeles Times reported that she admitted two years ago to recording a conversation between her
SF News Kim & Kanye Allowed To Sue YouTube Co-Founder Over Proposal Video A Superior Court Judge in L.A. has rejected a motion from YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley to dismiss Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's lawsuit over a video of their lavish engagement party at
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pizzas, Mapped Here are 25 iconic San Francisco pizzerias on a map. [EaterSF] Radio Silence, a noted local print publication, is rolling out their online edition. [SFMag] Husband sought in murder of Castro Valley woman.
